Word: diana
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sign her up. Iman, 20, who speaks fluent English, learned in the missionary schools she attended until age 15, arrived in Manhattan last week looking well-coiffed, made-up and clothed in jungle chic. "She's very distinguished, with a beautiful head and lovely long throat," observed Diana Vreeland, former editor of Vogue. Wilhelmina projected Iman's first-year salary at $80,000, prompting Beard to boast: "I feel like it's My Fair Lady." Iman's own goal: "To see the world...
...shouldn't be a total loss, Mahogany contains one pearl: a romantic interlude between Diana Ross and Anthony Perkins. Ross appears as Tracy, a poor girl from the Chicago ghetto who has made it big as a model in Rome. Perkins plays Sean, a former combat correspondent who has made it big as a fashion photographer. Sean's sexuality remains moot through much of the film -until the moment when he forces a chilly Tracy down on a bed and mutters, "I understand the needs of a woman...
...earnings of its record label, one of the country's largest music-publishing companies, an artists' management concern and a TV and movie production arm, whose only previous theatrical release was the immensely profitable Lady Sings the Blues, also starring Gordy's close friend and protegee Diana Ross...
...memory of last year's humiliating 9-0 loss in Hanover was still a bitter one in the minds of returning 'Cliffe veterans. One of them, co-captain Carlene Rhodes, turned in a sparkling performance. The goalie, who in the words of teammate Diana Finch "always stands out," kept Radcliffe in the tense affair with superb netminding...
Despite the risk, the signs are that more and more women are inclined to fight back. In her book, The Politics of Rape, Diana Russell, a Mills College sociologist, gives a dramatic example of their growing pugnacity: three women-angry at a man who boasted that he had committed rape-sought him out, punched him in the genitals and beat him up. "I'd like to see more women hit back or hit first," said one of the women. "I think women should learn how to use guns, and I think they should carry them in the streets...